Dr. Katie To explains how stress damages teeth and gums two ways: clenching and grinding wears down enamel and causes cracks, while elevated cortisol triggers inflammation and weakens immunity, promoting gum disease. Managing stress through journaling, meditation, or talking with friends can help prevent these problems.
Two factors. First, physical. When people are more stressed out, they tend to clench or they tend to grind, and that directly affects the enamel. It can wear it down, break, cause pain. And secondly, it goes down to a more deeper chemical level. When you stress out, your cortisol levels are increasing, which causes chronic inflammation in your body, and now it's leading to gum disease or your immune system is breaking down. That's why it's really important to manage your stress either through journaling or meditation or reaching out to people in your circle so that you can talk about it. It.
